§ 157-54. Rights, powers, etc., of housing authorities relative to national defense projects. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 157‑54.  Rights,powers, etc., of housing authorities relative to national defense projects.

Any housing authority may undertake the development and administrationof projects to assure the availability of safe and sanitary dwellings forpersons engaged in national defense activities whom the housing authoritydetermines would not otherwise be able to secure safe and sanitary dwellingswithin the vicinity thereof, but no housing authority shall initiate thedevelopment of any such project pursuant to this Article after the terminationof the present war.

In the ownership, development or administration of such projects, ahousing authority shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and immunitiesthat such authority has under any provision of law relating to the ownership,development or administration of slum clearance and housing projects forpersons of low income, in the same manner as though all the provisions of lawapplicable to slum clearance and housing projects for persons of low incomewere applicable to projects developed or administered to assure theavailability of safe and sanitary dwellings for persons engaged in nationaldefense activities as provided in this Article, and housing projects developedor administered hereunder shall constitute "housing projects" underArticle 1 of this Chapter, as that term is used therein: Provided, that duringthe period (herein called the "national defense period") that ahousing authority finds (which finding shall be conclusive in any suit, actionor proceeding) that within its authorized area of operation, or any partthereof, there is an acute shortage of safe and sanitary dwellings whichimpedes the National Defense Program in this State and that the necessary safeand sanitary dwellings would not otherwise be provided when needed for personsengaged in national defense activities, any project developed or administeredby such housing authority (or by any housing authority cooperating with it) insuch area pursuant to this Article, with the financial aid of the federalgovernment (or as agent for the federal government as hereinafter provided),shall not be subject to the limitations provided in G.S. 157‑29; andprovided further, that, during the national defense period, a housing authoritymay make payments in such amounts as it finds necessary or desirable for anyservices, facilities, works, privileges or improvements furnished for or inconnection with any such projects. After the national defense period, any suchprojects owned and administered by a housing authority shall be administeredfor the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of Article 1 of thisChapter. (1941, c. 63, s. 2;1943, c. 90, s. 1.)